SENIORNET COMPUTER LEARNING CENTER NEWS
March
1, 2003, Vol. 4; Issue #3
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Address: PMB 44, 12819 SE 38th St., Bellevue, WA 98006-1326
Classroom
at Phantom Lake Elementary School, Bellevue
By Helen Hesketh
WEEKLY
ASSISTANCE WORKSHOP LABORATORY TIME
WILL
BE CONTINUED
Get
your questions answered and problems solved or just come out and work on your
project and get solutions instantly!
The
new LAB series will begin Wednesday morning March 12th from 9:30am to 12:00
noon. The series will continue for a total of five Wednesdays ending
on April 9th. Mark your calendars now!
SeniorNet
is again offering members and guests the opportunity to attend our Assistance
Workshop LAB sessions. You can bring your questions and concerns
regarding software and hardware and Instructors will be available to help
you one-on-one.
“During
our last series,” Vice President, Adella Granger, and LAB coordinator,
reports, “we had students bring their problem Laptops and Hard Drive
equipment for analysis. Our experts were able to determine the problems
and send home happy students.
One
of our students, Howard Donaldson, brought Scott Gilson to one of our Lab
Sessions. He was so impressed that he joined SeniorNet and signed
up for two Spring classes. To show our appreciation, Howard was awarded
with a free class. This could happen to you.”
We
encourage you to take this opportunity to introduce friends to our SeniorNet
Organization. You do not have to be a SeniorNet member to attend
a LAB session. If they have a problem, we are eager to help them.
If you have any special user questions or concerns, our Instructors will
be happy to get them resolved.
These
sessions will continue in our classroom at Phantom Lake Elementary School
in Bellevue, 302 – 151st Place NE.
KAFFEE
KLATCH:
You are invited to participate in the SeniorNet Kaffee
Klatch on Tuesday,
March 4, at 11:30 am, held at the Crossroads Mall Food Circus, where you
can get a bite to eat and “kibbutz” with old and new found friends.
MARCH
ANNUAL MEETING FEATURES JILL McLEOD,
PRINCIPAL OF PHANTOM LAKE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, AS SPEAKER:
SeniorNet
will meet Tuesday, March 18, at 10 am
in at the Bellevue Library in downtown Bellevue. Mark your calendar
and plan to attend another food, fun and social activity mixed in with
business, knowledge and door prizes. Continental Breakfast from 10:00ish
or whenever we get it set up until 10:30. Meeting begins at 10:30 with
Annual reports for Finances, Treasurer, Bob Swenson; Facilities,
Coordinator, Ken Crandall; Registration, Registrar, Louise
Flora; Curriculum, Coordinator, John Wise; Instructors
and Assistants, Coordinator, Ray French: Volunteers, Coordinator,
Delores Davis; Granpals, Coordinator, Nancy Harsh;
and Annual Update, President Helen Hesketh. Principal Jill
McLeod states, “she will be relating the progress of the new school
facility and other growth of the school for this year.”
"Our
best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more
good than a doctor or banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more
harm than a brick."
– Dr. Frank Crane
STILL
TIME TO REGISTER FOR CLASS
While
it is only the end of February, some SeniorNet classes are already completed!
Our classes run through the month of May. Louise
Flora, Registrar, stated that, “Some of our more popular classes
are close to filling up. If you have been sitting on the fence about registering,
then the time to do it is now!” If you want to learn more about Photo Editing
and Scanning only a couple spaces remain in Hal Mozer’s Photo-2
class which will begin on Wednesday, April 23. One classes in Word Processing
(Word-4) still is open in late April. This class begins April 22 thru May
27. There is so much to learn about the Word program that a repeat class
is always useful. Then if you “think” you know it all try the Intermediate
Word Processing (Word IM-1). Instructor Chuck Goldstein has a world
of information waiting for you.
If
you have upgraded your computer to XP, you may need help or just a reinforcement
of what you already know. In March Dave Abernathy will be instructing
on the XP Operating System beginning March 11 thru April 8.
Tired
of paying high prices for greeting cards, Marge Langley can help
you out. She has a Greeting Card Class – a real bargain at $10.00. Just
buying 2 or 3 cards will pay for the class. Two days of 2 hours each Tuesday
April 22 and April 29. Your cards will look better than those purchased
and be personalized.
Both
of the email programs – AOL and Outlook Express which begin in March have
openings – They are also priced at $10.00 for 3 hours of instruction.
Call
the voice mail 206-232-5892 or email senior@seniornetps.org
for further information.Registration
materials and membership applications can be downloaded from our web site
– www.seniornetps.org.
DOWNLOAD
THIS NEWSLETTER IS AVAILABLE
A new feature has been added
with this issue. If you prefer to download this newsletter rather than trying
to read or print from the email, then you can download it and read it later.
OVERLAKE
ACTIVE SENIOR FAIR
SeniorNet
will be visible once again at the Overlake Active Senior Fair on Saturday,
March 8th, 10 am to 3 pm at the Overlake Hospital Conference
Center, 1035 116th Avenue NE, Bellevue. Joe Pontecorvo,
Coordinator for this exhibit, “invites you all to attend and participate
in this event”. He further adds, “in addition to exhibits showcasing products
and services, discount coupons and prizes, there will be live entertainment
including Gardening Tips, Wrinkles of Washington, a jazz ensemble, fashion
show for both men and women, and speakers on topics ranging from managing
retirement money to living an active, healthy life. If that isn’t of interest
then perhaps a free bone density scan or blood pressure check and massages.
If you are a baseball fan, there will be a raffle for signed Edgar Martinez
items, and Mariners vs. Yankees tickets.”
Limited
FREE Parking,
No
Entrance Fee, No registration required however there is a $5 suggested
donation to support Senior Care’s community education programs. A Luncheon
Special consisting of a soup and sandwich buffet will be available on site
for only $5 in the Atrium Café.
GENEALOGY
FAIR
Take
a few minutes and stop by the SeniorNet table at the Genealogy Fair at
Crossroads Mall on March 15th. If you have never taken an interest in your
“roots”, perhaps now is the time. SeniorNet does have Genealogy courses
if you are interested. There will also be other groups there to educate
you. John Wise will be coordinating this event.
EXPERTS
STUMPED
AT THE FEBRUARY
MEMBERSHIP PANEL DISCUSSION!
After
the normal February membership meeting we had another panel with Betty
Block, Chuck Goldstein, Ross Roberts and Gordon Young on board,
to answer specific users computer questions. One question about using Outlook
Express digressed into determining if the user was using Microsoft Word
as the editor for messages being typed in Outlook Express. Ken Crandall,
Panel Moderator, states, “ I decided to use the laptop computer and a projector
to show everyone how you could determine if Word was the selected editor
for Outlook Express. After looking at many of the available Outlook Express
options, I agreed to look it up at a latter time and to send out the answer
with our ever knowledgeable Puget Sound newsletter.”
To
this end, I have copied a part of the PC Magazine review of Outlook Express
version 6.0 below.
“Outlook
Express even includes a Usenet newsgroup reader. Don't expect any powerhouse
features here, though. You can't download headers from a server and then
decide what to do with the full messages, as you can with Outlook. And
you can't
use Word as your editor when creating e-mail. Instead, you must use Outlook
Express's editor, which is fine for most people's needs.”
This
is the problem with computers. Too many options!Several
of us trying to answer the user question use “Outlook” instead of “Outlook
Express” as our e-mail program. In Outlook there is an option under the
Mail Format tab reading “Use Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages”.
We
can be stumped once in a while, but for the most part, we are pretty good
at answering your questions. Therefore, I can highly recommend that you
take advantage of “question and answer” panels at specific membership meetings
and/or come to our newly initiated “Assistance Workshop laboratory” sessions
where you can get one-on-one assistance for your computer problems using
the computers in our classroom. You can learn about the next lab sessions
else where in this newsletter.
Reported and Researched
by Ken Crandall
GRANPALS
If
you bump into a Granpal (those are Seniors who help out the students with
reading, writing, arithmetic, etc., at the Phantom Lake Elementary School)
check out the new name tags. A big thank you to Harry Shedd
and Ross Roberts for seeing this project to the finish,
Irene
Fernandes, recorder of
the hours, reports that we posted over 92 hours last month. That
sounds really good since it was for January, a month of traditional
sick time and trips south. February was a short month and came up about
the same with hours. We do have a disabled granpal, Ken McDivitt,who
fell last month and cracked a bone in his hip. Get back on your feet
soon, Ken.
Nancy Harsh, Granpal
Coordinator
SPAM
(and it’s not in the can) AGAIN
If
you are irritated by "spam"(unsolitcited electronic mail) and you have
a Washington State email address, you can now register it with the Washington
Association of Internet Service Providers at
http://registry.waisp.org/
to give notice to the world of your
Washington-based email address for the purposes of Washington State's new
Unsolicited Commercial E-mail law.
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Copyright
2003 by Richard Schenkar, Attorney, Columnist
2 Maple Lane, Mercer Island WA 98040
Phone/Fax: 206-232-2282
E-mail: <Richard_Schenkar@juno.com>
Connecting you with information you
need to be effective.
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COORDINATORS
ANNOUNCED
Ray
French, Instructors Coordinator, announced the following, “Dick
Thompson is the new coordinator for Windows XP and Bill McPherson
has agreed to coordinate Word.
Outlines
and content are being discussed, reviewed, revised and will be ready for
the instructors for the fall.”
CPR TRAINING
In
January twenty-two instructors, assistants, and Granpals participated in
the three hour CPR training by the Bellevue Fire Department. If you have
not taken CPR classes for a while or have forgotten what you learned, go
to the next available class near you. What you did learn has changed and
is now simplified. You could be the instrument that saves someone’s life.
The
classroom now is equipped with gloves and breather mouth pieces in the
event there should ever be an emergency. The phones have always been marked
with where and how to call in the correct information.
Also a good idea to carry
one with you in your car, pocket or purse
.
BELLEVUE
HUMAN SERVICE COMMISSION
SEEKING
VOLUNTEERS
“The
Bellevue Human Service Commission will have three openings in June.The
Commission is a seven person committee, appointed by the Bellevue City
Council, which advises the Council on human service issues and funding.The
Commission meets the first and third Tuesday each month at 6:30 P.M.To
serve on the Commission one must be a Bellevue resident.
The
meetings are interesting and educational.In
addition to learning about social agencies and programs that serve Bellevue
residents, we receive presentations and written material regarding
human service issues and needs(e.g.,
census findings, new programs and approaches, welfare reform status reports,
legislative updates)
Anyone
interested in learning more about the Commission is welcome to attend our
meetings, which are open to the public.In
addition, please contact any of the following people for further information:
Diana
Thompson, Advance Bellevue graduate and current Commissioner:822-8694
Ann
Young,Advance Bellevue graduate:
747-3274
Michelle
Kline, current chairperson of the Commission: 462-4648
Emily
Leslie, City of Bellevue Human Services Manager: 452-6452
Shelly
Murphy, Bellevue Deputy City Clerk: 452-6466”
Note:
Diana Thompson is the wife of our instructor and member Dick Thompson.
They sure are busy people.
DO
YOU HAVE A CELL PHONE?
Read
on for an important notice for 911 Calls.
When
you dial 911, a phone number appears on your phone screen. The number displayed
may not be your actual dialable phone number. It may be a routing number
used by the wireless network. Dialing the phone’s routing number from another
phone will not result in a call to your phone. Therefore, when you call
911, you should not rely on the number on your phone screen as being the
number at which you can be reached. Remember to give the 911 operator your
actual dialable phone number if asked for a callback number rather than
the number displayed on your phone screen.
12
Step Program
EVERYONE
PLEASE PUT YOUR HANDS ON YOUR MONITOR AND REPEAT THESE WORDS WITH ME:
1) I will NOT get bad luck, lose
my friends, or lose my mailing lists if I DON'T forward an email!
2) I will NOT hear any music or
see a taco dog, if I do forward an e-mail.
3) Bill Gates is NOT going to send
me money, Victoria's Secret doesn't know anything about a gift certificate
they're supposed to send me.
4) Ford will NOT give me a 50% discount
even if I forward my e-mail to more than 50 people!
5) I will NEVER receive gift certificates,
coupons, or freebies from Coca-Cola, Cracker Barrel, Old Navy, Outback
Steakhouse or anyone else if I send an e-mail to 10 people.
6) I will NEVER see a popup window
if I forward an e-mail . NEVER-NEVER!
7) There is NO SUCH THING as an
e-mail tracking program, and I am not gullible enough to think that someone
will send me $100 for forwarding an e-mail to 10 or more people!
8) There is NO kid with cancer through
the Make-a-Wish program in England collecting anything! He did when
he was 7 or 8 years old. He is now cancer-free and 35 years old and
DOESN'T WANT ANYMORE POST CARDS or GET-WELL CARDS.
9) The government does not have
a bill in Congress called 601B (or whatever they named it this week) that
if passed, will enable them to charge us 5 cents for every e-mail we send.
10) There will be NO cool dancing,
singing, waving, colorful flowers, characters, or program that I will receive
immediately after I forward an-mail.
NONE, ZIP, ZERO, NADA!!
11) The American Red Cross will
NOT donate 50 cents to a certain individual dying of some never-heard-of
disease for every e-mail address I send this to.
The American Red Cross RECEIVES
donations.
12) And finally, I WILL NOT let
others guilt me into sending things by telling me I am not their friend
or that I don't believe in Jesus Christ.
If
God wants to send me a message, I believe the bushes in my yard will burn
before He picks up a PC to pass it on! And my friends already know
that I love them -- whether or not I respond to or forward an email.
Now, repeat this to yourself until you have it memorized, and send it along
to at least 5 of your friends before the next full moon or you will surely
be constipated for the next three months and all of your hair will fall
out.
From
Dave Abernathy
CAUTION
NOTE: While all computer-operating tips come from usually reliable sources,
readers are reminded you use them at YOUR OWN RISK. Again, in case you have friends who are
online, and may be interested in taking classes to expand their skills, forward
this newsletter to them by clicking Forward when this message is displayed.
Then enter their address in the To box, and click Send. We welcome your personal
news items sent to senior@seniornetps.org.
If you wish to receive this newsletter monthly, email your full name, phone
and email address to the above email address. And if you wish to unsubscribe,
just send a message to same email address.
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Pres.>
Helen Hesketh; Vice Pres.>Adella
J. Granger; Treas.>Bob Swenson; Secy>Patricia Braun; Registrar>Louise
Flora; Immediate Past Pres.>Clif Wuesthoff; Curriculum Coordinator> John
Wise; Facilities Coordinator>
Ken Crandall; Member-at-Large>Delores
Davis; Volunteers Coordinator>
Delores Davis; Granpals Coordinator Nancy Harsh; Catalogue Editors>Clair
& Jo Hugh
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